Kiyo

@grexe It’d be great if PH had an auto-filter based on devices you own so you didn’t have to see products you can’t use. It’d save time for everyone involved.

@grexe We made sure to tag Kiyo as an iPhone app since we are not at a place as a small team with a new product to be able to develop on more than one OS. As you can imagine, we strive to be able to bring Kiyo to as many people and platforms as we can.

@nicholist I perfectly understand your point, working in a small startup myself. Sadly there is no way to configure PH notifications based on tags, though. And I'm actually happy because I don't want to live in an Android filter bubble. Wouldn't a cross-platform framework be an option here?

@grexe Always good to live outside of the bubble, whatever that bubble may be! Many options, of course. We're a team with a long history of developing for iOS (you can catch one of us presenting an app at Apple's very first Keynote introducing the App Store) so what made the most sense for us was to start with what we knew best.

@nicholist @grexe I'm a fan of cross platform frameworks, but sometimes it's hard to get the UX just right when you're working with an abstraction of native development. Not a Kiyo team member, but I can understand why they might avoid it.

@bjnovak @devwastaken @nicholist @rrhoover totally read the 'shower' and 'random photos' parts too quickly

@bjnovak @devwastaken @nicholist @productpearson 😂 brb, making a new Kiyo board.

@productpearson @rrhoover Ha! Fun little fact, Kiyo is the slightly-Americanized version of the Japanese word for 'memoirs.' So instead of calling them 'boards' or 'collections' we simply call them kiyos.

@rrhoover short answer: my friends (insert winking tongue out emoji) Long(er) answer: We think of Kiyo as a personal media app, designed to connect with actual friends rather than browse content by people you don't know. There are so many wonderful places online to follow strangers you admire, but what we felt was lacking was a place online where we felt comfortable sharing a less-curated, more honest version of ourselves and connect with friends in a way that was more meaningful than performative (hence direct messaging rather than likes or public comments.)

@jud5on I miss path. Edit: never mind it apparently still exists. Thanks for getting me to redownload it!

@jud5on that was my immediate reaction, both visually (pop-out button) and in its vision. Hopefully it won’t have the same fate...